The origin story of syphilis goes back far longer than we thought

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Ancient find rewrites 3,000 years of syphilis-like disease history

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the ...
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Syphilis is everywhere. How it spreads and why early treatment matters.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely ...
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To Your Good Health: A look at early ways of ‘curing’ syphilis

DEAR DR. ROACH: I read that in the 1700s, animal blood was transfused into humans to cure syphilis. Is this true? • T.U. ANSWER: The story is a bit more complicated. Transfusion from animals into ...